肚脐

等待方舟

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

不可饶恕

　　最近，城市里发生了可怕的杀人事件，一具被切割成6块的女尸的曝光和凶手的逍遥法外引起了社会的恐慌。作为休假的交换条件，搜查科研究员姜民浩（薛景求 饰）接下了这个棘手的案件。行事雷厉风行的他和推理天才闵瑞英（韩惠珍 饰）联手，调查取得了突飞猛进的进展，嫌疑人李圣浩（ 柳承范 饰）的名字渐渐浮出水面。　　李圣浩一经逮捕就对自己所犯的罪行供认不讳，可是姜民浩却发现事实并不是他所说的那么简单。就在这个节骨眼上，姜民浩的女儿突然失踪，他明白这绝对和李圣浩脱不了干系。李圣浩告诉姜民浩，若想要得知女儿的下落，就必须和他玩一个解谜的游戏——解开他留在尸体上的谜题。一场以生命为筹码的赌注开始了。

大佛回国

SPEC：翔

　　经过长时间的休整，治疗眼伤的濑文焚流（加濑亮 饰）终于随着当麻（户田惠梨香 饰）重返阔别已久的未详，只是此时来自公安部公安五课的市柳（でんでん 饰）和吉川（北村一辉 饰）握得实权，令濑文等人颇为气闷。与此同时，在市井算命的觉被一掌握瞬间移动能力的黑衣男子射杀，同时遇害的还有觉的保镖以及几名无辜市民。父母双双遇害而作为幸存者并且目击了黑衣人真实容颜的少女久远望（谷村美月 饰）便成为对方追杀的目标。为了保护小望，未详同仁通力合作，并持续追索黑衣人的真面目以及其背后的阴谋。在此期间，当麻也展示了其不为人知的SPEC。一场斗智斗勇的战斗拉开了序幕……